Omaha Natives in Nebraska, the Seminole Natives in Florida, the Mexican Natives in Mexico, the Natives of the San Blas Islands, the Natives of Chichicastenango in Guatemala, the Mayans in Yucatán, the Patagonian Natives in Argentina, the Natives of La Paz in Bolivia and the Inca Natives in Peru. In 1944 Gerardo Vega, of Costa Rica, was the first Latin-American native to pioneer when he began work in Panama. Regional committees overseeing various countries of Latin and South America were appointed. Retrospectively a stated purpose for the committee was to facilitate a shift in the balance of roles from North American guidance and Latin cooperation to Latin guidance and North American cooperation. Back in North America, the first all-Native assembly in the Americas was first established in 1948 on the Omaha Indian Reservation at Macy, Nebraska. The process was well underway by 1950 and was to be enforced about 1953. Shoghi Effendi then called for two international conventions to be held at April 1951; one was held in Panama City for the purpose of electing a regional National Spiritual Assembly The nineteenth objective of that portion of the Ten Year Crusade entrusted in 1953 to the American Baháʼí Community by its architect was the "conversion to the Faith of members of the leading Native American tribes." In August 1957 Shoghi Effendi reminded the regional assembly of the comment of Abdu'l-Baha and would therefore devote considerable energy on the matter. A Baháʼí made a trip to Dominica specifically to try to reach the Carib Indians on May 7, 1959. In Mexico in March 1957 the first Indians joining the religion are noted. A committee focused on that need was active by April 1958 in making contacts and translating materials. Baháʼí observers were welcomed at an Inter-American Indian Congress in the city of Guatemala in 1959 thanks to their contacts with local versions of inter-American Indian institutes in the region and included opportunities for sharing native and Spanish translations of Baháʼí pamphlets. The first all-Indian assembly of Mexico was elected in San Rafael Comac near Cholula, Puebla in 1960. Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga specifically visited this assembly in May 1961. By 1961 a number of developments had been achieved. There was the election of the Bolivian national assembly—representative of a community the vast majority of whom were of the Aymara people. Some thirteen hundred of these Indians, in over one